Stranger Things Happen: Stories [Paperback]

“An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler andBuffy the Vampire Slayer.”—Salon.com (Best of the Year)

“A delightful collection.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“My favorite fantasy writer.”—Alan Cheuse,All Things Considered

Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling. —Rain Taxi

Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life. —Booklist

The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement.
—Publishers Weekly

Kelly Link's collection of stories,Stranger Things Happen,really scores.
—Daniel Mendelsohn,New York Magazine

A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy.
—Washington Post Book World

Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch.
—Kirkus Reviews

A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen.
—Karen Joy Fowler

Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surroulCĪ